Hopper-bottom gondola car.



PATENTED JAN. 8, 1907.

O O I OOIOO A. E. OSTRANDER.

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HOPPER BOTTOM GONDOLA CAR.

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A. B. OSTRANDER. HOPPER BOTTOM GONDOLA CAR.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 29, 1906.

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APPLICATION FILEDJJUNE 29. 1906.

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UNITED STATES.

" PATENT OFFICE.

ALLEN E. .OSTRANDER, OFQPATERSON, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO AMERICAN OAR & FOUNDRY COMPANY, or ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI,

. A CORPORATION or NEW JERSEY.

' HoPPEmBo-r'ro m GONDOLA CAR.

Patented Jan. 8, I907.

I0 allwhom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, A LEN E. OSTRANDER, a citizen of the United St ates, residing at Paterson, New J ersey, have 'invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Hopper-Bottom Gondola Cars, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, such as will einghad to the accom an -'ng drawings,

forming part of this spec' cation, in whichshown in Figure 1 is a plan view of the hoppers of a gondola car constructed in accordance with my invention. Fi 2 is a view the right hand side of which is an elevation of the side of the car the left-hand side of which. is a longitudinal section; and Fig. 3 is a transi erse sectional view taken on the line 3* 3 of This invention relates to cars, and particularly to hopper-bottom gondola cars.

' The object'of my invention is to provide a steel car possessing maximum strength with weight and in which the hoppers are formedin' a novel manner.

Referring to the drawings, which represent the preferred form of my invention, 1 designates the center sills of the car; 2, the plategirder sides, provided at their lower edges with angles 3, and 4 designatespressed-metal channel shaped members which form the cross-bearers and are connected to the center sills. andto the plate-girder sides. Gussetplates 5, each provided with a pressed flange 6., are connected to the late-girder sides and to one of the flanges 0 a pressed-metal side stake 7, said gusset-plates extending below the floor of the car and being connected to the webs of the cross-bearers 4 by rivets 8.

A strengthening-angle 9, extending from the by rivets 11 to the upper-flanges of the cross-- bearers 4, and the center floor-plate 12, which extends between the twin ho pers, is connected to the lFipper flanges of t e center sills, as

1g. 1 As the hoppers are of the them.

I The center sheet of the hopper is composed of two plates 13 and 13, (shown in Figs. 1 and 2,) which are flanged at their upper ends and connected to the upper flange of the crossbearer by the same row of rivets 11 which connectthe floor-plates to the cross-bearer, the floorlates belng lapped over the flanges of said p ates 13, as shown in Fig. 2. The outside. sheet of the hopper consists of a central plate 14 and two end plates 15, connected by rivets 16, the end plates being also connected by rivets 17 to the plates 13, which form the center sheet of the hop er. These end plates 15 are of pressed meta and are soconstructed that they form the outside corners of the hopper, one half of each plate lying in the plane of the central plate 14 and the other half lying in the plane of the plate 13. Thecentral plate 14 inclines inwardly toward the center of the car, as shown in Fig. 3, to provide for the required clearance and is provided with a flange 18, through which rivets pass to connect said late to the side of the car. On a narrow car, owever, the plate 14 need not be inclined inwardly. The end plates 15 are also provided with upwardly projecting flan es. through which rivets pass to connect sat? plates to the angle 3, at the lower edge of the plate-girder side, and the ends of said plates 15 are flanged upwardly at 19 and are connected to the gusset-plates 5, the strengthening-angles 9, which aid in securing said gusset-plates to the sides of the car, being bent slightly, as shown in Fig. 2, to provide a s ace for the flange 19' of plates 15.

The insi e sheet of the hopper is formed by one of the center sills and a late 20, provided with a flange through wlu' pass to connect it to the lower flange of the center sill, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3, angles 22 being connected to the center sill to extend beneath and support the inner edges to the center-sheet lates 13, which are connected to said'ang les by rivets 23.

The doors'24 of the hopper slope toward the center of the hopper when closed, thus making the application of the door-operating device easier and also providing a suflicient ch rivets 21 clearance for the doors when they are 0 en. Each door has connected thereto two sti ening-angles 25, placed back to back along the lower edge of the door, and hinges are preferably used for connecting said doors to the center-sheet plates 13, the fixed members 26 of the hinges being preferably of cast or malleable iron and connected to flanges 13 on said plates and the movable members 27being preferably of wrought-iron and connected to the doors and extending from the top to the bottom edges of the doors, as shown in Fig. 2. To afford a bearing for the doors when they are closed, angles 28 are connected to the central late 14 of the hopper and to the late 20, which forms the inside sheet of the opper.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

,1. A car comprising sides, cross-bearers, gusset-plates connected to the sides and to the cross-bearers, inclined plates connected at their u per ends to the cross-bearers and forming tl le center sheet of a ho per, a central plate connected to the side 0 the car and forming part of the side sheet of the ho per, said plate being inclined inwardl an end lates connected to said central plate, to-the inclined plates, to the gusset-plates,v and to the sides of the car; substantially as described.

2. A car comprising center sills, crossbearers, inclined lates connected to the cross-bearers and forming the center sheet of a hopper, means for connecting said plates to the center sill, inclined doors connected to the inner ends of said plates, and a plate connected to the center sill between the inner ends of said inclined plates and below said plates to formthe insi e sheet of the hopper; substantially as described.

3. In a hopfper-bottom car, center sills, inclined plates orming the center sheet of the hopper, and supporting-angles connected to the center sill and extending underneath the inner edges of said plates; substantially as described.

4. In a hopper bottom car, inclined plates forming the center sheet of the hopper, doors connected to the lower edges of the centersheet plates,outside and inside sheets having portions which extend below the lower edges of said inclined plates, and members con-.

nected to the inside and outside sheets below the inclined center-sheet plates to act as bearings for said doors when they are closed; substantially as described.

5. In a hopper-bottom car provided with channel-shaped center sills and plate-girder sides, plates depending from the center sills and provided with flan es which rest upon and are riveted to the ower flanges of the ro j ecting.

center sills, said plates acting as the inside sheets of the hoppers, inwardly-inclined plates forming the outside sheets .of the hopper and provided with flanges which are'con nected to the plate-girder sides, plates forming the center sheets of the hopper and belng connected to the center sills and to said 111- wardly-inclined plates, and doors connected to said center-sheet plates; substantlally as described. v

6. A car comprising-a side, a cross-bearer, a gussetlate connectedto said side and extending elow the floor of the car and connected to the cross-bearer, a strengtheningangle connected to the gusset-plate and to theside, an inclined plate forming the center sheet of a hopper and being connected to said cross-bearer, and a plate connected to said plate and to the side of the car and provided with a flange which is connected to the gusset-plate and to the strengthening-angle substantially as described.

7. A car comprising center sills, plategirder sides, flanged members connected to the sills and to the sides to form a crossbearer, gussetlates connected to the sides and to thewe s of the cross-bearers below the floor of the car, ho pers arranged on each are separate from the side and end "sheets ofthe hopper; substantially as described. J

9. A car having a hopper consisting of side sheets and end sheets and separate sheetmetal plates forming the corners of the hopper; substantially as described.

10. A car provided with a hopper in which the side sheets and end sheets have parallel edges and separate sheet-metal plates connected to the side and end sheets to form the corners of the hopper; substantially as described.

11. A car having a hopper consisting of side sheets and end sheets, and pressed-metal plates connected to'said side and end sheets and forming the corners of the hopper; substantially as described.

12. A ondola car consisting of sides, transverse y-extending cross-bearers or floorbeams, a ho per located between said crossbearers, an gussetlates arranged at the outside corners of sai hopper and being connected to the sides and to the cross-bearers substantially as described.

I 13. ,A car com rising sides, cross-bearers, a hopper located between said cross-bearers, gusset-plates arran ed at the outside corners of said hopper an being connected to the sides and to the cross-bearers, and side stakes In testimony whereof I hereunto afix my connected tosaid gusset-plates and to the signature, in the'presence of two witnesses, 1o

' cross-bearers substantially as described. this 20th day of J mm, 1906.

14. A car comprising a side, a crossbearer, ALLEN E OSTRANDER I 1 an end sheet of a hopper connected to said cross-bearer, and a gusset-plate connected to Witnesses:

the side and to the cross-bearer; substan- RoBT. G. JEFFERY, Y

tially as described.

WILLIAM N. 'WYETH. 

